COMMUNITY ANTENNA v. CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS

No. 35703.

712 S.E.2d 504 (2011)

COMMUNITY ANTENNA SERVICE, INC. Plaintiff Below, Appellee v. CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS VI, LLC Defendant Below, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 23, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Full, Esq. , Goodwin & Goodwin, LLP, Parkersburg, WV, for Community Antenna.

Bryant J. Spann, Esq. , Allen Guthrie & Thomas, PLLC, Charleston, WV, Robert G. Scott, Jr., Esq. , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, District of Columbia, for Charter Communications.


KETCHUM, Justice:

This case has a simple central issue: did one television cable company offer discounted rates to some (but not all) of its customers in violation of a state law that prohibits "unduly discriminatory rates"?

The parties—two cable companies—have litigated this issue for over a decade. After a trial, a jury concluded that one cable company's reduced rates for only a few of its customers violated state law, and were designed to...

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